Monitoring a website for changes

Wed, 2016-06-15 06:41 — Bill Smith

Hi,
I'm new to Simon and have found it very useful for monitoring remote servers.
Can someone clarify how to monitor a remote website (not my own) for changes on that website?
The webpage in question changes rarely, but I'd like to know when it changes.

Just add a Web (HTTP) service and enter its URL. By default a Change filter will be included, which will detect any changes on the page. If you want to narrow it down to a specific portion of the page, e.g. to avoid any dynamic content like ad banners or relative times, you can replace that with a Block filter, or one of the others, depending on your needs.

You can also add notifiers to get alerted of changes; several notifiers are provided, plus you can add more, typically ones that require configuration before use (e.g. email).